Ashwani Gupta is Alliance Senior Vice President of Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi LCV Business. He took leadership of the Renault LCV Business Unit in 2014 and added responsibility for Nissan’s LCV business in 2017. His role aims to expand LCV market leadership under a single business organization, unleashing the full potential of Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi.
Mr. Gupta joined Renault as general manager of purchasing at Renault India in Mumbai. He moved to the Renault Nissan Purchasing Organization in Paris in 2008, as global supplier account manager for braking systems. The following year, he joined Renault Nissan B.V. as deputy general manager, global purchasing. In 2011, Mr Gupta was appointed global program director for Datsun programmes at Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. in Japan, where he led the product development to launch in India, Russia, Indonesia and South Africa.
Mr. Gupta began his career in 1992 in engineering and purchasing in the private sector and later moved to management positions in the automotive industry.
Mr Gupta graduated from Jawaharlal Nehru Engineering College, India, and obtained a diploma from The Indian Institution of Export and Import Management. He has also studied at CEDEP, in association with INSEAD, London Business School and Harvard Business School.
A native of India, Mr. Gupta is based in Paris, France.
About Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. Nissan is a global full-line vehicle manufacturer that sells more than 60 models under the Nissan, INFINITI and Datsun brands. In fiscal year 2017, the company sold 5.77 million vehicles globally, generating revenue of 11.9 trillion yen. On April 1, 2017, the company embarked on Nissan M.O.V.E. to 2022, a six-year plan targeting a 30% increase in annualized revenues to 16.5 trillion yen by the end of fiscal 2022, along with cumulative free cash flow of 2.5 trillion yen. As part of Nissan M.O.V.E. to 2022, the company plans to extend its leadership in electric vehicles, symbolized by the world's best-selling all-electric vehicle in history, the Nissan LEAF. Nissan’s global headquarters in Yokohama, Japan, manages operations in six regions: Asia & Oceania; Africa, the Middle East & India; China; Europe; Latin America; and North America. Nissan has a global workforce of 247,500 and has been partnered with French manufacturer Renault since 1999. In 2016, Nissan acquired a 34% stake in Mitsubishi Motors. Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi is today the world’s largest automotive partnership, with combined sales of more than 10.6 million vehicles in calendar year 2017.
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